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What it says on the tin. Darkness should be writable, and darkness should be a per-surface property (so underground surfaces are always partial darkness, for example).

Definitely, this would also be needed if a user-made mod wanted to implement the Space Platform idea, naturally for solar power there it'd always be full brightness.

daytime, wind_speed, wind_orientation, wind_orientation_change, and peaceful_mode have all been moved to LuaSurface for 0.13.

Darkness is a calculated field based off the daytime and as such isn't writable directly. Simply changing daytime effects darkness.

Rseding91 wrote:daytime, wind_speed, wind_orientation, wind_orientation_change, and peaceful_mode have all been moved to LuaSurface for 0.13.

Darkness is a calculated field based off the daytime and as such isn't writable directly.

Fantastic news! You guys rock.

Rseding91 wrote:Simply changing daytime effects darkness.

Simply is an understatement. It took me 160 lines of code. https://github.com/Afforess/Gloom/blob/ ... ght.lua#L4

Also, there is no way to go below 0.14 brightness.

1) You made a mistake here :
should be 0.6725

and I would have written that this way : It's much shorter

Koub wrote: and I would have written that this way :

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 if light_level <= 0.14 then
        return 0.5
elseif light_level > 0.99
        return 0.8
else return =0.2*light_level+0.55
end

It's much shorter

Is that the official formula? I dug around but the wiki didn't have it documented.

Edit: Rseding91 shared it in IRC: http://pastebin.com/raw/cRaYBrUn

No I just took your code, noticed that apart from the first and last value, you were just calculating a linear function for every increment of 0.01, so I put that in a formula that basically computes instead of chaining if then elseifs ^^.

Koub wrote:No I just took your code, noticed that apart from the first and last value, you were just calculating a linear function for every increment of 0.01, so I put that in a formula that basically computes instead of chaining if then elseifs ^^.

Nice... I got my numbers from sampling. Was not fun. Turns out your formula actually does match the derived formula from the game too. So congrats.

Afforess wrote:

Koub wrote:No I just took your code, noticed that apart from the first and last value, you were just calculating a linear function for every increment of 0.01, so I put that in a formula that basically computes instead of chaining if then elseifs ^^.

Nice... I got my numbers from sampling. Was not fun. Turns out your formula actually does match the derived formula from the game too. So congrats.

putting the values in a spreadsheet and making a graph out of it will help seeing those things.